Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Wie können wir die digitale Transformation in der Wirtschaft bewältigen und dabei die Souveränität von allen Beteiligten fördern? Dieser Frage widmet sich der Band des Instituts für Innovation und Technik (iit) zum gleichnamigen Symposium mit dem Titel „Digitalisierung souverän gestalten – Innovative Impuls…
Sabrina Rutter zeigt in dieser Open-Access-Publikation auf, inwiefern handlungsleitende Orientierungen von Lehrkräften in der Schule ungleichheitsrelevant werden und mit habitus- und milieuspezifischen Logiken zusammenhängen. Ansätze und Möglichkeiten der Ungleichheitsreduzierung werden auf Grundlage des Sozioanalysekonzeptes von Pierre Bourdieu diskutiert. Die Autorin liefert wichtige Hinw…
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of develo…
This open access book covers all aspects of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and provides detailed information on each MIGS device, including its mechanism of action; patient selection; implantation techniques; post-operative management; and a review of the existing literature. Step-by-step descriptions are provided for the surgical technique used in implanting each MIGS device, accom…
This book gathers the second volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 – 23, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Covering four thematic areas including Manufacturing Processes, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Systems, and Enabling Technologies, it highlights advances in micro- and na…
This book is also the story of how we(the authors) as computer science researchers embarked on a journey to engage with a new research field – equity and gender in computing – about which we had only sporadic knowledge when we began. We refer here to equity and gender in computing as a research field – but in reality, this research field is a multiplicity of entangled paths, concepts, and…
This open access book analyzes language education through a socio-material framework. The authors revisit their position as researchers by decentering themselves and humans in general from the main focus of research activities and giving way to the materialities that are agentive but often overlooked parts of our research contexts and processes. Through this critical posthumanist realism, they …
This open access book describes the theory of transformation thermotics and its extended theories for the active control of macroscopic thermal phenomena of artificial systems, which is in sharp contrast to classical thermodynamics comprising the four thermodynamic laws for the passive description of macroscopic thermal phenomena of natural systems. This monograph consists of two parts, i.e., i…
This open-access book empowers its readers to explore the acoustic world of animals. By listening to the sounds of nature, we can study animal behavior, distribution, and demographics; their habitat characteristics and needs; and the effects of noise. Sound recording is an efficient and affordable tool, independent of daylight and weather; and recorders may be left in place for many months at a…